Seeking mysterious, evocative new cover for my novel The Dreamcloth (literary fiction)

The Dreamcloth

Joanne Fedler

Joanne Fedler is the internationally bestselling author of 13 books which have sold over 750 000 copies worldwide. She is a writing mentor and women's rights and environmental activist. www.joannefedler.com

Mia is in Bosnia as a journalist when she is summoned by Asher, the man she blames for her father’s death. In his dying moments, Asher returns the dreamcloth to her, a patchwork of beads and lace he stole when she was just a child. The cloth, woven by a seamstress in a grim shtetl in Lithuania, holds the mystery of a forbidden love affair of Mia’s grandmother Maya, as she fled the anti-Semitism of Europe in the 1920’s. Mia returns to her homeland South Africa, on the eve of the first democratic elections where she grapples to make sense of the injustices, absences and hauntings of her childhood. What happened to her artist father Issey, her nanny Sarafina, and her best friend Grace? The dreamcloth with its ‘glimmer of blue silk, a moon of filigree lace and woven cobblestones of amber,’ holds the answers to all that has been lost. Fedler weaves together the present, past and distant past in a stirring epic of family secrets handed down from generation to generation, and ghosts that will not let go of the living.

Women in their forties and over. People interested in history, and particularly Jewish history.

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